Sunday, May 30, 2010

A Mystery!

So, considering all of this, we’ve noticed a BMW parked illegally in Boystown every Friday and Saturday night for the past several months — and it never gets ticketed for parking in a yellow curbed no parking zone.

But, two weeks ago, we witnessed two CPM meter maids working Halsted and saw the two approach the BMW, with one of them clearly being a trainee. The lead meter maid looked directly at the BMW, so that shot down the theory CPM can’t see that car. It did not vanish before our very eyes into BizarroWorld. The trainee started to write a ticket for being parked in the no parking yellow curb zone, but the other CPM agent stopped him, and we clearly heard the woman say to her subordinate, “No, you can’t ticket THAT car, stop filling that out”.

“I know that should get a ticket, but she won’t let me. I’m not allowed to write up that car, but I asked her, and she won’t tell me why,” is what the trainee told us. “I don’t know why I’m not allowed to write up that car, but she punched the license number into her box and it came up DO NOT WRITE”.

So the million dollar question is, "How do we get on that list in the parking ticket printer?" Imagine the connection there. Go read the article for all the details.

So what I'm wondering is this...the CPD does not have one of these computers that says "Do not write". What if a CPD ticket was issued? When it goes to where parkers go after they are turned in, does it get entered into some computer, and, at that point, it comes up "Do not write" also? Someone from 023 has to go write that car a few tickets and see what happens. Inquiring minds want to know.

What's that plate number? Publish the plate and I will stop there on my way too and from work and write the ticket at least twice a day, no problem. I don't have any such "DO NOT WRITE" in my computer.

Hell, I'll go there on my day off, I'm KMA and need some parkers to qualify for some bullshit overtime stuff. I would like to write tickets only to politicians or Department of Revenue personnel. I won't write regular citizens who already get screwed enough.

Hell, forget about publishing the plate, I am leaving for work in a few minutes, I will look in Boystown for the car and find it and start writing. Sounds like fun!

What is completely fucked up is that not one employee of this Daley-made company busted this issue out prior to now. And he wants to privatize everything! We'll be paying through the nose while the elite class are exempt from everything.

So great parking ticket officer with the great gifts of sight and sound I have one question for you: Why didn't you write the car a parking ticket then????

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Click on SCC's link and get the plate number. Jeez, have none of you ever surfed the internet before? It was civilians writing an article and SCC is giving them a boost to root out corruption. Blogs are going to change the way business is done in the city since the media won't.

Over the years I have contested numerous tickets I have received while on the job and performing probation duties . I always try to park legally , but sometimes it's just impossible ( permit parking, street cleaning , etc ) and I always leave the official business placard in the window . I have never had one of those tickets dismissed , I have had to pay all of them.

Anonymous said... An X plate is a lease. Better find out before they dump it.

Leased vehicle have all sorts of plate numbers. Some are even vanity and personalized. And NOT all plates with an "X" are leased. The plate on my kid's car starts with an "X" and he owns it. Well him and the bank. He has 14 payments left. No lease!

Parking now in control of a private company, no telling what they are doing. If there is one license plate that is " do not write", bet you there are others. Influence, nepotism, politics, cronyism and downright corruption is the way things are done in this city, county and state.

Doesn't it make you wonder how you become one of the chosen few? The people that are in on all the deals, get all the breaks, the best jobs one after another after another? And then the irony is that most of them are stupid, lazy and ill-equipped for whatever it is they have been handed. I really don't fucking get it. Even after they leave, they start corporations that thrive on taxpayer dollars. How the hell does this work? What is it with the insiders? What purpose do they serve other than driving normal working stiffs crazy?

What are the qualifications and what is the reasoning behind it all? Someone please explain this to me because in and of itself, it makes no fucking sense whatsoever!

Truly, if New Jersey is the most corrupt state in the Union, then Chicago is the winner of most corrupt city.

What pisses me off is that these politicians, department heads, exempts, etc., think their shit don't stink. They will do whatever the hell they feel like at the expense of the working slob and the tax-paying stiff.

VOTE THEM OUT! WE CANNOT CONTINUE WITH DALEY AND HIS MERRY BAND OF 50 THIEVES!

WE HAVE TO DUMP THEM.

And please, dear citizens, do not fall for the line: The City Council is corrupt, but not my alderman.

We need to elect a number of reform minded candidates in large enough numbers to put an end to this wheeling and dealing at our expense!

Seems to me that the owner of the car has the power to get rid of a ticket written by the CPD. Go ahead and write it, Hubie don't pay parking tickets. The meter maid tickets are harder to get rid of apparently so they came up with a little system around it. I would guess Robert Bannister, a big wig with the Dept. of Revenue is heavily involved somehow. He would at least be a great starting point for an ambitious investigative reporter.

"Do Not Write" list is crazy, get some balls and write the fucken ticket No way a boss will say shit, especially now that it is outEither ignore the car or write it, stop crying and either do something or be quiet

That is quite true. However, it is a violation of LEADS rules for their database to be used for anything other then official law enforcement purposes. Searching a plate in order to post the information on a blog wouldn’t be considered an official use. LEADS searches are logged and therefore traceable. Meaning there could be considerable consequences for an officer running the plate and posting the information. It is noteworthy that the plate was probably run 200 times today so pinpointing the rule violator might be difficult, so everyone who ran it could come under suspicion.

To get the information legally one has to travel down to the Illinois Secretary of State office and fill out the appropriate form and pay a fee (I believe it is $5.00). They will release it to you and also notify the owner of the car they released the information to you.

It is just as well the information doesn’t appear on this blog. But I would urge the authors of the original blog to use the legal method to obtain the information and post it so no one gets into a jam.

Truly, if New Jersey is the most corrupt state in the Union, then Chicago is the winner of most corrupt city._____________________________-

I'm a jersey girl living in Chicago... the difference between chicago & jersey's coruption is that Chicago is a dictatorship - no means no and people don't have a say; I'll take Jersey's corruption any day - we do have a voice..

Doesn't it make you wonder how you become one of the chosen few? The people that are in on all the deals, get all the breaks, the best jobs one after another after another? And then the irony is that most of them are stupid, lazy and ill-equipped for whatever it is they have been handed. I really don't fucking get it. Even after they leave, they start corporations that thrive on taxpayer dollars. How the hell does this work? What is it with the insiders? What purpose do they serve other than driving normal working stiffs crazy?

What are the qualifications and what is the reasoning behind it all? Someone please explain this to me because in and of itself, it makes no fucking sense whatsoever!

5/30/2010 02:05:00 PM

I'm with you buddy. My head can explode from observing this beaurocratic shit for 29 years. Like they say, the only reward for doing hard work is more work. This fckin job promotes and protects underhanded lying slimey thieves. I assume its birds of a feather flock together, and if you don't play the game, you lose. Monetarily, yes, but you keep your integrity. Sometimes I wonder...

No, an X plate is like X-Files, an unknown extraterrestrial. Don't fuck with X Plates or you will disappear into a large disc shaped alien craft with beings who all look and talk like richard m daley. A truly horrible place.

Patrick is here in Chicago and does not own a car...he has a 90,000 dollar a year driver as do his two sisters and the mayors 3 grandchildren equipted with car seats...provided by the Chicago Police Department Mayoral Detail.

No, an X plate is like X-Files, an unknown extraterrestrial. Don't fuck with X Plates or you will disappear into a large disc shaped alien craft with beings who all look and talk like richard m daley. A truly horrible place.

What planet are you from? The X on that plate is outta your ass, dumbass......X DOES NOT make it a leased vehicle, where the hell did you get that from??

5/30/2010 02:32:00 PM

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sorry but I know for a fact that if you write a banana for an X plate your ticket book will immediately catch fire and Pam Zeckman will magically appear out of the tail pipe and will immediately start punching you in the Johnson ... I've seen it .... trust me

As it was explained to me one time by an " insider", once you get inside, either by family or friends, you learn secrets. You are able to attend training classes, work in special units and make rank and learn more secrets. Then when you retire yuou can form a corporation or get a high level job for another agency public or private because you had the rank and the training. And, if you keep the secrets, you get the contracts. One leads to another.Just look at all of the incompetent brass that retired and ended up as director of security for private or public agencies. Most do not last long.

Did I read this correctly. The neebie ticket writer said there was a list of cars not to be written in his computer!

I can tell you that didn't happen when only the Police wrote tickets. They may have had them non-suited, but at least they had to show who they were. There was never a secret list. Transparency my ass. Vote them all out.

Edward Davis,923 W.Margate Terrace. Got info off Hillbuzz blog. Is this person related to Allison Davis? Davis was the employer of the Golden Child back in the day. Allison Davis was also involved with Tony Rezko. Allison Davis was also partners with Robert Vanecko when they received $67 million from City of Chicago Pension Funds...

The corner of Halsted that BMW is currently parking at is only a yellow painted curb area with NO signs that say No Parking. I don't see a Crosswalk...so no Citation for 20' from a Crosswalk for the Beemer.

VOTE THEM OUT! WE CANNOT CONTINUE WITH DALEY AND HIS MERRY BAND OF 50 THIEVES!Anonymous said..."...WE HAVE TO DUMP THEM.

And please, dear citizens, do not fall for the line: The City Council is corrupt, but not my alderman.

We need to elect a number of reform minded candidates in large enough numbers to put an end to this wheeling and dealing at our expense!"

5/30/2010 08:35:00 PM

The new 1st Ward Alderman was told on the day of his VERY FIRST vote after replacing Alderman Manny Flores by Da Mayor's People that he was NOT to be in the chambers for a vote Da Mayor wanted to pass...he told them to GO POUND SAND, and showed up for the vote and THEN VOTED AGAINST IT...I don't know much about this guy, but if he continues that little hot streak....I'll push every goddamn doorbell in his Ward for his next election!!!

As it was explained to me one time by an " insider", once you get inside, either by family or friends, you learn secrets. You are able to attend training classes, work in special units and make rank and learn more secrets. Then when you retire yuou can form a corporation or get a high level job for another agency public or private because you had the rank and the training. And, if you keep the secrets, you get the contracts. One leads to another.Just look at all of the incompetent brass that retired and ended up as director of security for private or public agencies. Most do not last long.

ticket was issued for "not paying the meter". can't write ticket for yellow linw unless there is also a tow zone sign posted. MOST meter signs are only posting the direction of the "pay box", but some people think that it means park from sign to sign. many of the sign where not placed right by the end of the blocks, because they were getting smahed by delivery trucks.